Includes bibliographical references (p. 479-514) and index

The late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries : The question of Joshua Johnston ; Robert S. Duncanson ; Edward M. Bannister ; Grafton T. Brown ; Edmonia Lewis ; Henry Ossawa Tanner ; Other significant early artists -- The twenties and the Black Renaissance : Aaron Douglas ; Richard Barthé ; Archibald J. Motley, Jr. ; Palmer C. Hayden ; Augusta Savage ; Malvin Gray Johnson ; W.H. Johnson ; Hale A. Woodruff ; Sargent Johnson -- Emergence of African-American artists during the Depression : Three influential people-- Alain Leroy Locke, Charles Christopher Seifert, Mary Beattie Brady ; Charles H. Alston ; Eldzier Cortor ; Beauford Delaney ; Joseph Delaney ; Jacob Lawrence ; Norman Lewis ; Hughie Lee-Smith ; Ellis Wilson -- The naive, self-taught artists : William Edmondson ; Horace Pippin -- Art departments in African-American colleges : James A. Porter ; Lois Mailou Jones ; James Lesesne Wells -- Post-World War II African-American artists : Charles White ; Elizabeth Catlett ; John T. Biggers ; Carroll H. Simms ; Alma W. Thomas ; Ed Wilson ; James W. Washington, Jr. ; Richard Mayhew

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